Cait

“How could you know with certainty that someone was going to die, that there was nothing else that could be done?”
― J. Thomas Grant, The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

“mitochondria – bean-shaped power stations that supply cells with energy.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“Next he showed me my life review. Every second from birth until death you will see and feel, and [you will] experience your emotions and others that you hurt, and feel their pain and emotions. What this is for is so you can see what kind of person you were and how you treated others from another vantage point, and you will be harder on yourself than anyone to judge you.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, “Animals might be evolution’s icing, but bacteria are really the cake.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life